Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Alice in Wonderland Revisited

Lewis Carroll's timeless novels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, have fascinated and inspired many generations of artists since the first novel was published over 150 years ago. Alice in Wonderland at Tate Liverpool is the first exhibition to provide a comprehensive historical exploration of how the stories have influenced the visual arts, providing insight into the creation of the novels, the adoption of the text as an inspiration for artists and the revision of its key themes by artists up to present day.

Carroll's stories were soon adopted by artists. Surrealist artists from the 1930s onwards were drawn towards this fantastical world where natural laws were suspended. From the 1960s through the 1970s, conceptual artists took Alice as foil for exploring our relationship to perception and reality, and the stories inspired responses in both Pop and Psychedelic art.

There will be the opportunity to see the original drawings by Sir John Tenniel, Salvador Dali's series of twelve Alice in Wonderland illustrations, work by Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Dorothea Tanning and many more...

A journey through 150 years of one of the most imaginative sources of inspiration ever: Alice in Wonderland.

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Lavender and Cervantes (Don Quixote, 1804)

... but to go round the world and play at give and take with giants and dragons and monsters, and hear hissings and roarings and bellowings and howlings, and even all of this would be lavender, if we had not to reckon with Yanguesans and enchanted Moors.